I've been HORNED!!!

I'm surprised to have access to a computer here at Lazybear Weekend but here I am updating my journal!

We went shopping at the Safeway and bought a bag of cherries. In the middle of the night, I woke up with a craving for some cherries (no, I'm not pregnant), so I went thru the dark room and made my way to the fridge and grabbed a handful. As I got to the edge of the bed, my toe touched something that felt strange. In the darkness, it looked like I had dropped a cherry, so I picked it up. My first observation at the "cherry" in my other hand was that it seemed awfully small and had an unusually large number of "stems". It slipped out of my hand (I didn't really have a firm grasp of it) and I went to pick it up again. This time, I was just going to toss it in the trash, but it turned out to be something like this: My creature seemed to be orange, had a narrower thorax and instead of antennae, seemed to have two bumps on its head (horns?)...and the damned thing poked my thumb with its HORNS! I discovered that these horny creatures don't have poisonous stingers, so my thumb didn't have any welts or bumps the next morning, but I was very glad that I didn't take a bite out of that "cherry"! In my drowsy state, I dropped it on the floor and decided not to pick it up again. It looked very still so I assumed that the drop from my hand must have killed it, so I went to sleep. It was there in the morning but in a different spot and moving very slowly so we evicted it from our suite and told it to stop "horning" people! I can't say whether it understood, but it won't horn me again! This is a weekend when touching horny creatures is very common as you might imagine! Details (and pictures) to follow in future entries!